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Title: BUYING A HORSE

Reference number: 0719

Date: 1922c

Production company: Green's Film Service

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 1.00 mins

Description: An extract from a cinemagazine featuring the music hall comedians Power and Bendon.

Scottish Kinema Record notes that Power & Bendon were in performance at Glasgow Pavilion Feb 1922.

Film preserved by the National Film Archive.

Shotlist: No credits. Buying a horse. Power and Bendon, the popular pantomime comedians, entered the ranks of commerce. They nearly bought "an 'orse" - but in the dark weather, they couldn't find the money they didn't have. Green's (.09); Several horses are led into a snow-covered yard where they are examined by Power and Bendon with a view to purchase (.31); Having purchased a [pantomime] horse, they put it through its paces, finally succeeding in loading the apparently exhausted horse onto a cart which they then push out of shot (1.25)